From the article of 'Petrel'
No.609 / December 8, 1996
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"Solution" of Okinawa base problem
Failing petty bourgeois fantasy.
The Japan-U.S. special action committee which examined the problem of the Okinawa base put out "Final report".
The restoration of the base of 11 facilities with about 5,000 hectares was promised to Japan. It is said to correspond to about 21% of the U.S.Army base in the prefecture.
Because the prospect of the solution was good by that, a Hashimoto regime and an American side may be relieved at the base problem.
This is not to mention no fundamental solution it. Can it be called an improvement even in some measure?
Nothing has not essentially changed into Okinawa as the island in the base as original. "Solution" of base problem is exchanged for the provide improvement or swindle clever-handed work, symbolized by the substitution for sea facilities of Futenma airport.
What on earth is the "solution" of the Okinawa base problem or the approach to solution?
The abolition of the U.S.Army base, it is not a impossibility or improbable problem at all. American imperialism is declining and the United States's being maintaining a huge army to the foreign country becomes difficult more and more. It is an age when even Reduction of overseas base, therefore, the withdrawal of the base from Okinawa is talked in the United States.
Of course, this is not to become so at once. In the Japan-U.S. negotiation at this time, as for military power of the U.S.Army, "reduction" is not done at all after all. If military power of the U.S.Army is not reduced though the base might be able to be reduced, the fraud of this base reduction is too clear.
Okinawa as the island in the base may not change still if the Self Defense Forces in Japan advance more and more in large quantities in place of it even if the U.S.Army withdraws from Okinawa.
Or, do you say that it is good and there is often no base of the army in the United States if it is a base of the army in Japan? There will not be person who talks nonsense as for such "Japanese Communist Party" in the reader of 'Petrel' either.
The base problem of Okinawa made clear that the base is not lost at all until rule and the imperialism of the monopolistic capital are eliminated. The base will spread in other places even if it is lost in Okinawa. In addition, The base of the army in Japan will this time spread even if the base of the U.S.Army is lost.
It only has to not be a base of the U.S.Army or the base only has to come to me. -- It is not the one of the working class even if such standpoints are petty bourgeois'. The worker is opposite to all military bases even though Japan's even though United States's, or even though is a base in Okinawa even though is a base in Tokyo and does not stop the fight opposed the rule of monopolistic capital and imperialism until the all are eliminated. The worker differs definitely from the petty bourgeois (the typical, political expression is a Japanese Communist Party and its politics) by this respect.
"True character" of Oota who plotted together the Hashimoto regime already is revealed and the reactionary and cheating of the community liberalism are clarified in Okinawa. Only worker's class standpoint can be consistently entirely fought against them to the last minute. This was clarified also in Okinawa.